Wordsworth and Word-Preserving Arts

Typographic Inscription, Ekphrasis and Posterity in the Later Work
2007. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-349-35723-9
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 295 g

By looking at the later Wordsworth's ekphrastic writings about visual art and his increased awareness of the printed dimension of his work, Simonsen calls attention to what is uniquely exciting about this neglected body of work, and argues that it complicates traditional understandings of Wordsworth based on his so-called Great Decade.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Simonsen, P.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction The Return of the Visible and Romantic Ekphrasis: Wordsworth in the Visual Art Culture of Romanticism Typographic Inscription: The Art of 'Word-Preserving' in Wordsworth's Later Inscriptions 'If Mine Had Been the Painter's Hand': Wordsworth's Collaboration with Sir George Beaumont The Sonnet as Visual Poetry: Italics in 'After-Thought' The Book of Ekphrasis: Yarrow Revisited, And Other Poems 'The Marble Index of a Mind': Frontispiece Portraiture and the Image of Late Wordsworth Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

PETER SIMONSEN received his PhD from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He is currently Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Southern Denmark.